Russian' NHL'ers begin signing with KHL teams

09/16/2012 at 5:12am EDT

Per Sovetsky Sport's Pavel Lysenkov:

Metallurg right now signed contracts with Malkin and Gonchar.
— Pavel Lysenkov (@plysenkov) September 16, 2012

No Crosby in Magnitogorsk with Malkin. Kulemin will be third NHL player. But no contract yet. #Pens
— Pavel Lysenkov (@plysenkov) September 16, 2012

My info - Ovechkin will not play in Dynamo. 99% - CSKA.
— Pavel Lysenkov (@plysenkov) September 16, 2012

Ilya Kovalchuk will play for SKA SPb. It's pure 100% info. #NJDevils
— Pavel Lysenkov (@plysenkov) September 16, 2012

G Anton Khudobin going to play for Atlant (Moscow region). F Loktionov too, but Lokomotiv has sports rights.
— Pavel Lysenkov (@plysenkov) September 16, 2012

There's no news regarding Red Wings forward Pavel Datsyuk (Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg? Ak Bars Kazan?) or Alex Semin (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl?) yet, but...

Bryz may be another CSKA player as well RT @plysenkov: My info - Ovechkin will not play in Dynamo. 99% - CSKA.
— Dmitry Chesnokov (@dchesnokov) September 16, 2012

So CSKA GM Sergei Fedorov's loading up on NHL'ers after having spent a significant chunk of sponsor Rosneft's money to acquire Alex Radulov's rights from Salavat Yulaev...Interesting...

Update: More from Lysenkov:

Nail Yakupov will play for "Neftekhimik" (Nizhnekamsk). Tomorrow - arrive to Russia, First game could be 19th in Nizhni Novgorod.
— Pavel Lysenkov (@plysenkov) September 16, 2012

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